THE RECORDING GUIDE
Start with the portion you ate.
Lifetime records selected fruit and vegetables, rather than a complete diet. It does not calculate calories, nutrients, or the nutritional quality of a whole meal. The food score reflects the amounts and distinct foods you enter.
Grams, items, and servings
Use the edible portion in grams when you know it. One serving in this app means 80 g. Item counts use an approximate editable weight: an apple starts at 180 g, for example, so half an apple starts at 90 g. Adjust the weight to fit what you ate; item sizes vary.
Mixed dishes and missing foods
For a dish containing 60 g of carrots and 40 g of broccoli, enter those two amounts separately. Do not also record the entire dish as another vegetable portion. Choose Other fruit or Other vegetable for a missing item and give it a consistent name.
How daily food time works
The current rule awards up to 10 LIFE minutes for fruit, 15 for vegetables, and 4 for variety each day. A distinct food needs at least 40 g in that day to count toward variety; the first qualifying food adds no variety bonus. These are product scoring limits, not dietary recommendations.
Two 40 g entries of the same food on the same date count as 80 g together. Splitting the portion does not create another distinct food. Reaching a score limit does not make later foods unimportant; you can still record them.
See the food calculation and its limits for a worked example.